Response to DHH

DHH, like anybody else, is imperfect. But the author acts like he is superior. He isn't.

But I will say there is not much worse than a person who feigns respect and then goes on to say things like:

"toxic personality and inability to scale teams"

"it would be good to explore with a therapist or coach" (therapist really being the dig, here)

"Why are you still so small?"

"Instead of bragging about your beautiful office in the clouds, you should question why you can’t scale teams."

If your respect for DHH was real, you would have given your feedback in a respectful way instead of writing some blog post with such incendiary comments.

> I’m unsure why you felt you had to insert yourself into this fight with Silver Lake / WP Engine and take their side, but here we are.

It seems that the fight has been made public with photomatt's constant commentary, at least on HN.

Unconvincing.

Gonna go out on a limb here and say that following this paragraph with links to DHH's $2MM sports cars and his home office that costs an integer multiple of what my entire house costs sort of undercuts his argument.

It seems to me like Matt is the type of person who likes to hide behind character and other ad hominem attacks rather than addressing actual issues at hand. Perhaps this is because of a psychological issue but I can’t really know. Normally I would think the community would be repulsed by this and would find an alternative.

What is remarkable is that there has not been enough community animus to fork relative to Terraform and OpenTofu. It shows the power of the underlying GPL license and “plugin” approach. Something to think about for other companies that may be thinking about relicensing versus just building a durable ecosystem around their proprietary brand and assets.

Not that my opinion matters, but my preference would be that Matt stops with the pithy comments like "this is a respectful debate" or "I'll try to do better" and is instead just honest that he doesn't care what others think.